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The Reporter. (Akron, Ohio), 1987-11-28

The Reporter. (Akron, Ohio), 1987-11-28 page 1

SORORITIES MAKE FAMILY AGENDA SEE PAGE 4 PHILLIPS CHAPEL CME HALL OF FAME SEE PAGE 5 HAMPTON UNIVERSITY NAMED RICHEST BLACK SCHOOL SEE PAGE 7 r 5-p* * ~ -?> V J ys * ?Ak tEJje Reporter Cincinnati ? Cleveland ? Columbus ? Elyria ? Lorain ? Mansfield ? Oberlin ? Ravenna ? Sandusky ? Warren ? Youngstown ? Northeast Ohio VOL. XIX, NO. Ill NOVEMBER 2X. I<M<7TIII<1' DECEMBER 1987 A tight In Like Darkness 25 t IMS PLR ( OPV Service Officer Promofed Four-star General Bernard P. Randolph, America's highest-ranking black military officer and third black full general in U.S. history. Gen. Randolph, who was nominated in April by President Reagan for the four-star promotion, heads the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC). "We're responsible for developing and directing the development and purchase of all the brand-new weapons systems that the Air Force buys," he explains in Ebony Magazine profile. "We have a budget of about $34 billion (one-third of the Air Force's total budget), and that's a lot of your and may tax money," adds the 54-yearold general, who is in charge of almost 60.000 men and women and 24,000 active contracts totaling about $150 billion. The New Orleans native says he actually joined the Air Force in 1955 to avoid being drafted into the Army. Although Gen. Randolph never planned on a military career, his impressive accomplishments include coordinat Gen. Bernard P. Handnlph ing the operations of all air control elements in Vietnam, directing the Air Force Satellite Communications System in Los Angeles and starting and directing the Anti-Satellite system and its support aspects. His equally impressive academic credentials include an MBA, a master's degree in electrical engineering and bachelor's degrees in chemistry and electrical engineering. Scholarship Endowment WASHINGTON ? General Motors Corp. donated $250,000 to langston University, Langs ton. Okla., for a scholarship endowment under the terms of an agreement with the I'.S. Kipial Kmploynient Opportunity Commission. College president Dr. Krnest L. Ilolloway accepted the grant in a Washington, l).C. ceremony. l.angston University is one of :12 colleges and universities sharing $H> million donated by GM as part of a conciliation agreement resolving hundreds of charges of employment discrimination. Pictured left to right are EEOC Vice Chairman R. Gaull Silherman. Mr. Harry Singleton, I.angston University's Washington Representative, Dr. Ernest 1.. Ilolloway, President of l.angston University, EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, Mr. Tliomas Gawel, assistant director of employment relations. General Motors and EEOC Commissioner Joy Cherian. The over population of our jails and prisons does nol mean that the State must use our lax dollars to build more jails and more prisons to confine the Black males. The more jails and prisons we build today will be the confining of more Blacks Blacks already comprise the greates majority of inmates. The continued confinement and enslavement of Blacks will lead to a Civil las. We must nol forget the roits and burnings of 1968-69 in AkronClevland-Youngstown and all over the United States. One thing that we learned is that we gel excited when the fires rage. It is not jails and prisons we need. It is not more laws, more policemen, or more judges. We must look at the game being p'ayed against the Black People. We need a sense of fairness in all Ihe things we do. We must face these questions squarely: Why are there so many Blacks in custody? Why are there so many Blacks unemployed, uneducated, poorly housed and under fed? Our tax dollars should be spent to remove or prevent these problems. Jobs that jails WILLIAM R. ELLIS, Editor-Publisher and prison create is no comparison to the prosperity a Free People living in peace will have. This codntry will not except half free and half slave We sill all have freedom or we will all die. There is no middle ground. Governor Celeste and his Administration should know better. Maybe a recall petition would be the answer? We don't need this type of government nor the degrading of Blacks that are a part of the daily newscast on our TV sets where Black males are shown as criminals and outcast. U.S. Government Attacks Nation of Islam by Kwaku Duren Atlanta, Ga. ? The July 27, 1987 FBI-initiated arrest of Nation of Islam (NOI) Minister Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, allegedly for misuse of a social security card number in a real estate transaction, is being viewed by some prominent Atlantans as a blatant attempt to cripple Min. Louis Farrakhan and the NOI. Recently appointed National Spokesman for Min. Farrakhan, Dr. Khallia's arrest was apparently a well-orchestrated setup involving an AfricanAmerican real estate broker, Fred King of the New American Mortgage Company in Ticker, Georgia, and agents from the FBI, the Irs and the Georgia Bureau of Intelligence (GBI). Khallid informed The National Alliance that his arrest was the result of a series of "illegal wire tappings" and "buggings" of conversations between himself and Fred King, a reai estate broker who was supposedly assisting him with the purchase of a home for his family in Atlanta. The arrest of Khallid, the ' former Supreme Captain of the Fruit of Islam (FOD, and the circumstances surrounding it were immediately suspect and seem connected to the FBI's attempt to interfere with Farrakhan's right to speak in Los Angeles While Khallid was in Los Angeles promoting Min Farrakhan's appearance, he received an "urgent call from Fred King" stating that he "needed to return to Georgia in order to close the deal on his purchase of a house." When Khallid arrived at the Denny's restaurant in Atlanta where he was to meet King, he reports, "I got out of the car, took several steps and there were FBI and GBI agents everywhere. There must have been at least 80 of them - in the prking lot, inside the restaurant, even down the street. They all had their weapons out and cocked; some had handguns, some had Uzis, some had riot pump shotguns. They were wearing bulletproof vests and were in full riot gear." After being held for three days in Douglas County federal facility, Dr Khallid was taken before federal magistrate Joel Feldman. Despite protests by the federal prosecutors and the FBI, and obviously in consideration of mounting community support for the detained minister and the presence of militant but disciplined Muslims who were seen standing on corners inf ront of and all over the courthouse, Khallid was released by magistrate Feldman on his own "personal recognizance" and a hearing was scheduled for Sept. 2, 1987. At the hearing, Dr. Khallid, who had been originally charged only with allegedly "misusing another individual's social security number" in connection with the purchase of his Atlanta residence, was also hit with tax evasion charges. Currently it is unclear whether or riot the original charges will be dropped by the federal prosecutors. As a result of Khallid's arrest well-known Atlantans have raised questions regarding the possible presecution of the minister for his religious affiliations and beliefs. Khallid has publicly stated that he believes that "African-American people should not be taxed since they are not receiving equal justice." Muslim encounters with the FBI date back to the early 1930s. A legal "victory fund" has been established to meet court costs under the leadership of Khallid's wife, Khallidah Muhammad, and noted AfricanAmerican attorney Tony Axal, who in the past has defended Mayor Andrew Yong, Maynard Jackson and Julian Bond. Azal has been retained to defend Min. Farrakhan's National Spokesman. In addition, Khallid's plight is beginning to attract the attention of civil libertarians, progressive political organizations and other religious associations who see the potential associations who see the potential danger of the government attack against Khallid and the Nation of Islam. Declaring that his legal defense would be based firmly on First Amendment rights. Khallid added, "The Nation of Islam and its ministers should not be subjected to a racist double-standard in relation to the white churches when it comes to tax matters." Those wishing to financially aid the legal defense of Dr Khallid should make checks and money orders pay ible to "Khallid Legal Victory Fund" arid mail to 965 Martin Luther King Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30314 NASA E.E.O. Chief Akron resident Robert F. Lawrence has been named Chief of the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs at NASA Lewis Research Center. Law^ rence heads a major Center staff office that assists management by developing initiatives and strategies to recruit School Bd Member Hexed Rita Dixon said she didn't do it, but the Emeryvill (Calif) school board vice president was censured after the district superintendent accused her of seeking to hire a hit man to kill him, plus a witch to hex him. When Oakland witch Z. Budapest was asked to cast a spell on the superintendent, she told Dixon "to go suck an egg," according to the San Francisco Chronicle. and develop the highly qualified, integrated work force supporting Lewis' role in aeronautics and space. The new chief came to Lewis in 1984 from the Veterans Administration (VA) Regional Office in Cleveland where he headed an EEO special emphasis program and serviced G.I. mortgage loans. In 1974, he was among the first Ohio Vietnam-era veterans selected by the VA to serve as a resident college staff member. He was assigned to assist disable and Vietnam veterans enrolled at the University of Akron and worked in that capacity for five years before transferring to Cleveland in 1979. Lawrence earned a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Akron. He and his wife, Everely, are the parents of a teenage daughter. His parents, Braswley and Lavenia Lawrence, reside in Youngstown, Ohio. Jackson Seeks US Protection Atlanta, Ga. - A death threat from the Ku Klux Klan has prompted the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Presidential campaign to renew its request for early Secret Service protection.A spokesman for Jackson said the Federal Bureau of Investigation Friday relayed the latest threat on the Democratic candidate. Jackson earlier had received another threat through the mail from Baton Rouge, Ga. MINORITIES INTERESTED IN RESEARCH Dr. Herman Branson. President Emeritus of Lincoln University and renown physicist who received international recognition in 1951 for discovering the alpha helix which determines the basic structure of proteins, discusses research findings presented by Morehouse School of Medicine students Travis Weddington. left, and Gerald Thompson, right of Atlanta. Ga.. during a poster session at the annual Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS)-Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Symposium, held in Arlington. Va? a suburb of Washington. D.C. Dr. Branson delivered the keynote address at the Symposium commemorating the 15th anniversaries of two National Institutes of Health programs designed to attract more ethnic minorities into biomedical research careers. Approximately 2,500 student and faculty investigators from MBRS and MARC programs at 130 institutions attended the Symposium which, in addition to having more than 600 poster and orai presentations by students, featured nationally known researchers who discussed their latest findings in neuroscience, molecular genetics, hypertension, substance abuse, and other areas. pe Welfare Mothers Esca Concern for their children is the prime motivation for mothers trying to escape welfare, and unless this concern is met, job training and placement efforts will fail. These and other lessons about job training programs for women on welfare are explored in a report issued today by the Rockefeller Foun - dation. The report comes near the end of a six-year program funded by the Foundation aimed at assisting 2,500 mi norily mothers in four cities. The Minority Female Single Parent (MFSP) program pro vides a group of services for minority mothers on welfare, including skills training, child care, basic education, and counseling, to see whether the participants can find and keep jobs that pay enough to make up for their loss of welfare benefits. "We know that while many welfare mothers desperately want the opportunity to be comc self- supporting, neither this desire nor the availability of training programs is sufficient. Without adequate child care and other supportive services, these women will drop out of job training and placement programs," according to Richard W Lyman, Foundation president. The report makes five observations" (1) Motherhood comes first. Since the women in the program enroll primarily to provide for their children. adequate provisions for child care are essential. (2) Provide suitable training in basic shills, especially in reading and language skills. (3) Keep the focus on the job. Although child care and other support services are essential, the center of everything must be job training and placement. (4) Respect individual needs. The program participants lead complicated lives and their day-to-day Continued on Page 3

SORORITIES MAKE FAMILY AGENDA SEE PAGE 4 PHILLIPS CHAPEL CME HALL OF FAME SEE PAGE 5 HAMPTON UNIVERSITY NAMED RICHEST BLACK SCHOOL SEE PAGE 7 r 5-p* * ~ -?> V J ys * ?Ak tEJje Reporter Cincinnati ? Cleveland ? Columbus ? Elyria ? Lorain ? Mansfield ? Oberlin ? Ravenna ? Sandusky ? Warren ? Youngstown ? Northeast Ohio VOL. XIX, NO. Ill NOVEMBER 2X. I million donated by GM as part of a conciliation agreement resolving hundreds of charges of employment discrimination. Pictured left to right are EEOC Vice Chairman R. Gaull Silherman. Mr. Harry Singleton, I.angston University's Washington Representative, Dr. Ernest 1.. Ilolloway, President of l.angston University, EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, Mr. Tliomas Gawel, assistant director of employment relations. General Motors and EEOC Commissioner Joy Cherian. The over population of our jails and prisons does nol mean that the State must use our lax dollars to build more jails and more prisons to confine the Black males. The more jails and prisons we build today will be the confining of more Blacks Blacks already comprise the greates majority of inmates. The continued confinement and enslavement of Blacks will lead to a Civil las. We must nol forget the roits and burnings of 1968-69 in AkronClevland-Youngstown and all over the United States. One thing that we learned is that we gel excited when the fires rage. It is not jails and prisons we need. It is not more laws, more policemen, or more judges. We must look at the game being p'ayed against the Black People. We need a sense of fairness in all Ihe things we do. We must face these questions squarely: Why are there so many Blacks in custody? Why are there so many Blacks unemployed, uneducated, poorly housed and under fed? Our tax dollars should be spent to remove or prevent these problems. Jobs that jails WILLIAM R. ELLIS, Editor-Publisher and prison create is no comparison to the prosperity a Free People living in peace will have. This codntry will not except half free and half slave We sill all have freedom or we will all die. There is no middle ground. Governor Celeste and his Administration should know better. Maybe a recall petition would be the answer? We don't need this type of government nor the degrading of Blacks that are a part of the daily newscast on our TV sets where Black males are shown as criminals and outcast. U.S. Government Attacks Nation of Islam by Kwaku Duren Atlanta, Ga. ? The July 27, 1987 FBI-initiated arrest of Nation of Islam (NOI) Minister Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, allegedly for misuse of a social security card number in a real estate transaction, is being viewed by some prominent Atlantans as a blatant attempt to cripple Min. Louis Farrakhan and the NOI. Recently appointed National Spokesman for Min. Farrakhan, Dr. Khallia's arrest was apparently a well-orchestrated setup involving an AfricanAmerican real estate broker, Fred King of the New American Mortgage Company in Ticker, Georgia, and agents from the FBI, the Irs and the Georgia Bureau of Intelligence (GBI). Khallid informed The National Alliance that his arrest was the result of a series of "illegal wire tappings" and "buggings" of conversations between himself and Fred King, a reai estate broker who was supposedly assisting him with the purchase of a home for his family in Atlanta. The arrest of Khallid, the ' former Supreme Captain of the Fruit of Islam (FOD, and the circumstances surrounding it were immediately suspect and seem connected to the FBI's attempt to interfere with Farrakhan's right to speak in Los Angeles While Khallid was in Los Angeles promoting Min Farrakhan's appearance, he received an "urgent call from Fred King" stating that he "needed to return to Georgia in order to close the deal on his purchase of a house." When Khallid arrived at the Denny's restaurant in Atlanta where he was to meet King, he reports, "I got out of the car, took several steps and there were FBI and GBI agents everywhere. There must have been at least 80 of them - in the prking lot, inside the restaurant, even down the street. They all had their weapons out and cocked; some had handguns, some had Uzis, some had riot pump shotguns. They were wearing bulletproof vests and were in full riot gear." After being held for three days in Douglas County federal facility, Dr Khallid was taken before federal magistrate Joel Feldman. Despite protests by the federal prosecutors and the FBI, and obviously in consideration of mounting community support for the detained minister and the presence of militant but disciplined Muslims who were seen standing on corners inf ront of and all over the courthouse, Khallid was released by magistrate Feldman on his own "personal recognizance" and a hearing was scheduled for Sept. 2, 1987. At the hearing, Dr. Khallid, who had been originally charged only with allegedly "misusing another individual's social security number" in connection with the purchase of his Atlanta residence, was also hit with tax evasion charges. Currently it is unclear whether or riot the original charges will be dropped by the federal prosecutors. As a result of Khallid's arrest well-known Atlantans have raised questions regarding the possible presecution of the minister for his religious affiliations and beliefs. Khallid has publicly stated that he believes that "African-American people should not be taxed since they are not receiving equal justice." Muslim encounters with the FBI date back to the early 1930s. A legal "victory fund" has been established to meet court costs under the leadership of Khallid's wife, Khallidah Muhammad, and noted AfricanAmerican attorney Tony Axal, who in the past has defended Mayor Andrew Yong, Maynard Jackson and Julian Bond. Azal has been retained to defend Min. Farrakhan's National Spokesman. In addition, Khallid's plight is beginning to attract the attention of civil libertarians, progressive political organizations and other religious associations who see the potential associations who see the potential danger of the government attack against Khallid and the Nation of Islam. Declaring that his legal defense would be based firmly on First Amendment rights. Khallid added, "The Nation of Islam and its ministers should not be subjected to a racist double-standard in relation to the white churches when it comes to tax matters." Those wishing to financially aid the legal defense of Dr Khallid should make checks and money orders pay ible to "Khallid Legal Victory Fund" arid mail to 965 Martin Luther King Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30314 NASA E.E.O. Chief Akron resident Robert F. Lawrence has been named Chief of the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs at NASA Lewis Research Center. Law^ rence heads a major Center staff office that assists management by developing initiatives and strategies to recruit School Bd Member Hexed Rita Dixon said she didn't do it, but the Emeryvill (Calif) school board vice president was censured after the district superintendent accused her of seeking to hire a hit man to kill him, plus a witch to hex him. When Oakland witch Z. Budapest was asked to cast a spell on the superintendent, she told Dixon "to go suck an egg," according to the San Francisco Chronicle. and develop the highly qualified, integrated work force supporting Lewis' role in aeronautics and space. The new chief came to Lewis in 1984 from the Veterans Administration (VA) Regional Office in Cleveland where he headed an EEO special emphasis program and serviced G.I. mortgage loans. In 1974, he was among the first Ohio Vietnam-era veterans selected by the VA to serve as a resident college staff member. He was assigned to assist disable and Vietnam veterans enrolled at the University of Akron and worked in that capacity for five years before transferring to Cleveland in 1979. Lawrence earned a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Akron. He and his wife, Everely, are the parents of a teenage daughter. His parents, Braswley and Lavenia Lawrence, reside in Youngstown, Ohio. Jackson Seeks US Protection Atlanta, Ga. - A death threat from the Ku Klux Klan has prompted the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Presidential campaign to renew its request for early Secret Service protection.A spokesman for Jackson said the Federal Bureau of Investigation Friday relayed the latest threat on the Democratic candidate. Jackson earlier had received another threat through the mail from Baton Rouge, Ga. MINORITIES INTERESTED IN RESEARCH Dr. Herman Branson. President Emeritus of Lincoln University and renown physicist who received international recognition in 1951 for discovering the alpha helix which determines the basic structure of proteins, discusses research findings presented by Morehouse School of Medicine students Travis Weddington. left, and Gerald Thompson, right of Atlanta. Ga.. during a poster session at the annual Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS)-Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Symposium, held in Arlington. Va? a suburb of Washington. D.C. Dr. Branson delivered the keynote address at the Symposium commemorating the 15th anniversaries of two National Institutes of Health programs designed to attract more ethnic minorities into biomedical research careers. Approximately 2,500 student and faculty investigators from MBRS and MARC programs at 130 institutions attended the Symposium which, in addition to having more than 600 poster and orai presentations by students, featured nationally known researchers who discussed their latest findings in neuroscience, molecular genetics, hypertension, substance abuse, and other areas. pe Welfare Mothers Esca Concern for their children is the prime motivation for mothers trying to escape welfare, and unless this concern is met, job training and placement efforts will fail. These and other lessons about job training programs for women on welfare are explored in a report issued today by the Rockefeller Foun - dation. The report comes near the end of a six-year program funded by the Foundation aimed at assisting 2,500 mi norily mothers in four cities. The Minority Female Single Parent (MFSP) program pro vides a group of services for minority mothers on welfare, including skills training, child care, basic education, and counseling, to see whether the participants can find and keep jobs that pay enough to make up for their loss of welfare benefits. "We know that while many welfare mothers desperately want the opportunity to be comc self- supporting, neither this desire nor the availability of training programs is sufficient. Without adequate child care and other supportive services, these women will drop out of job training and placement programs," according to Richard W Lyman, Foundation president. The report makes five observations" (1) Motherhood comes first. Since the women in the program enroll primarily to provide for their children. adequate provisions for child care are essential. (2) Provide suitable training in basic shills, especially in reading and language skills. (3) Keep the focus on the job. Although child care and other support services are essential, the center of everything must be job training and placement. (4) Respect individual needs. The program participants lead complicated lives and their day-to-day Continued on Page 3